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From the glossy cover I expected this to be another clone in the YA dystopias-with-love-triangle genre. And that does describe the basic set up pretty well: Cassia is a teen just coming of age in a regimented society, and her first clue that the Society does not always know best is when she accidentally gets matched for marriage to two boys at once. But the love triangle takes up very little space or energy, and the real tension is not in what boy Cassia will pick, but whether she will choose to
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I won this book as an advanced reader's copy through a blog's contest. The blog, if anyone is wondering, was http://rubysreads.com
This was a good YA dsytopian novel. This society is very over-controlling, down to every little detail. The mate you have, what you eat, how often you can exercise, what job you have, etc. They also try to over-simplify things by limiting them. For example, there were too many good books, so they destroyed all of them besides one hundred. The hundred that they preser ...more
This was a good YA dsytopian novel. This society is very over-controlling, down to every little detail. The mate you have, what you eat, how often you can exercise, what job you have, etc. They also try to over-simplify things by limiting them. For example, there were too many good books, so they destroyed all of them besides one hundred. The hundred that they preser ...more
I actually thought this book was going to be a lot better than it was. Maybe I'm just still high off The Hunger Games and the moves that were taken in actively overthrowing the government that this quiet rebellion seemed not enough to me.
It was an interesting enough dystopia, which are usually my favorite kind, but it wasn't a very threatening one. I'd like for that to make it scarier--the wrongs being done don't seem that atrocious, so it's just that much easier to sit back and let things happe ...more
It was an interesting enough dystopia, which are usually my favorite kind, but it wasn't a very threatening one. I'd like for that to make it scarier--the wrongs being done don't seem that atrocious, so it's just that much easier to sit back and let things happe ...more
I was initially excited about this book. I had heard good things about it and the world it is set in seemed interesting. Boy, was I disappointed. This book is so sappy that it was painful to read and the characters are cardboard cut-outs with no personality.
Jan 06, 2011
Danielle The Book Huntress
marked it as to-read
Jun 13, 2012
Kara Babcock
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Jul 26, 2013
Tam Linsey
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Apr 04, 2014
Figgy
marked it as to-read
